and
Bath ]]
and West
Wiltshire ]]
:For the local
Swindon radio station of a similar name see
Brunel FM ''
is a regional AM station in the west of
England .
The station carries the
Classic Gold Digital Network programming, except for a local 4-hour afternoon programme from 3pm to 7pm, Classic Gold Drivetime, which is different in the stations two sub-regions.
- ''The Even Tastier Breakfast''
- ''Classic Gold Drivetime'' (local programme)
- ''Classic Gold Late Night''
- ''The Retro Countdown''
- ''Classic Gold Albums''
The stations
Frequencies were originally used to
Simulcast feeds and
GWR Radio , but the British Government an act which declared its desire to end simulcasting on both FM and AM. So
GWR FM had to split the frequencies,
GWR FM continued of FM and became more and more music-led, playing Top 40 chart music during the daytime. On AM
GWR Radio launched Brunel Radio , a golden oldies station on 1260 kHz in
Bristol , and 936/1161 kHz AM in
Wiltshire . In the early 1990s
Brunel started networking programming to
2CR Radio in
Bournemouth and
Radio 210 in
Reading, Berkshire . Each station had "Classic Gold" appended to the end of their names (e.g. "Brunel Classic Gold", "210 Classic Gold" etc). Local news and shows was combined with networked programmes in each of its areas, this was the start of the what was to become the "Gold Network".
Nowadays the
Brunel Name has be completely dropped by the
Station , even during local programming and the Brunel
Region has been split into two regions,
Bristol &
Bath ] and
Swindon & west
Wiltshire . Locally the stations are usually referred to as
Classic Gold and then the frequency. The station was sold to
UBC in 2000 however in 2007 Gcap took control again after purchasing all Classic Gold stations. The Classic Gold name is thought to become a thing of the past as Classic Gold and Capital Gold merge.
